There’s finally a new Coca-Cola 600 winner, and somebody other than Johnson celebrated in Victory Lane at Lowe’s Motor Speedway for the first time in six races.

Kahne snapped Johnson’s streak of total dominance by taking the lead with 29 laps to go, then pulling out to such a huge lead that Johnson never had a chance to catch him.

“The 600 is such a big weekend, such a big race, and tonight was ours,” Kahne said. “Jimmie Johnson had been the winner for a long time, and we were able to win tonight.”

Johnson, the winner of the past three Coca-Cola 600s and seven of the last 10 races at Lowe’s, finished second. He was well over 2 seconds behind Kahne, who stopped his car at the finish line to grab the checkered flag and celebrate with his team.

“It’s a weird race, a long race, and I’m very proud of the stats that I’ve had — and slightly disappointed that it’s come to an end,” Johnson said.

It was Kahne’s third victory of the season and the first win for a Dodge at this track since Richard Petty in 1977.

Carl Edwards, Mark Martin and Matt Kenseth finished third through fifth for Roush Racing, followed by Jeff Burton, then Greg Biffle and Jamie McMurray in the other two Roush Fords. Denny Hamlin and Reed Sorenson rounded out the top 10, while Dale Earnhardt Jr. finished 11th.

Defending series champion Tony Stewart wrecked early in the race and was taken to the hospital for evaluation. He was treated and released, and a team spokesman said Stewart broke the tip of his right shoulder blade.

Stewart — who slipped to fourth in the standings, 209 points behind Johnson — also was taken to the hospital because of a bruised shoulder following a wreck Saturday night in the Busch Series race.

“He’s going to be sore — it’s the same spot he hit last time,” team president J.D. Gibbs said. “There isn’t much you can do about it. He needs rest and needs to take care of it; ice it, wrap it up real well.”

It looked as if pole-sitter Scott Riggs was going to make a run at his first career victory until a series of mistakes during his pit stop with 40 laps to go took him out of contention.

Riggs was the leader when he pitted, but didn’t come to a clean stop, stalled his Dodge when he tried to pull away, and as his crew pushed him out the jack and fuel can left his assigned area — drawing a stop-and-go penalty that took him out of contention. He ended up 13th, after leading eight times for 90 laps.

Riggs was 17th on the restart, with Edwards, Johnson and Kahne leading the field with 33 laps to go.

Kahne grabbed the lead moments later, his seventh time out front in NASCAR’s longest race of the season. He led a race-high 158 of the 400 laps in a race that begins in the day, ends in the night and leaves most drivers mentally and physically exhausted.

Alonso wins at Monaco

MONTE CARLO, Monaco — Fernando Alonso won the Monaco Grand Prix, his first victory in Formula One’s most prestigious race.

Alonso, in a Renault, won for the fourth time in seven races. The defending F1 champion now has 64 points.

Juan Pablo Montoya of McLaren-Mercedes was second, and David Coulthard of Red Bull was third. It was the first podium for Red Bull in an F1 race.

Alonso started from the pole, moving up from second when Schumacher was stripped of the pole position late Saturday. Stewards ruled Schumacher deliberately stopped his car on the track — blocking other drivers — during Saturday’s qualifying.

Capps tops Force

TOPEKA, Kan. — Funny Car points leader Ron Capps made it a perfect 3-for-3 in 2006 final rounds against John Force, speeding past the tire-spinning NHRA star in the final round in the O’Reilly Summer Nationals.

Capps, who extended his lead to 109 points, was joined by Top Fuel winner Doug Kalitta and Pro Stock racer Dave Connolly in the winner’s circle at Heartland Park Topeka.

Violent police encounters in California last year led to the deaths of 157 people and six officers, the state attorney general’s office said Thursday in a report that provides the first statewide tally on police use-of-force incidents.

At 6:03 p.m. Wednesday, police responded to reports of the robbery at the facility, 2301 Bancroft way, and learned that a man who snuck into the facility and began prowling through the building, taking cell phones and wallets from victims.

Investigators’ efforts to solve the case led to the arrests of Pablo Mendoza, 25, of Hayward, Brandon Follings, 26, of Oakland and Valeria Boden, 26, of Alameda, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday.